On Sunday, the Nigerian Army‘s 14 Brigade, Ohafia, conducted a raid on a baby factory at Umunkpei Nvosi in the Abia State local government of Isiala-Ngwa, which was purportedly run by a local.
When the troops arrived to the facility, they had already freed 22 women, including 2 kids (a boy and a girl) and 21 pregnant women.
A Tiger generator, a stretcher, a gas cylinder, a bag of rice, four cans of tomatoes, five liters of vegetable oil, two bags of garri, and soup ingredients are among the additional items discovered there.
Following an intelligence information that the proprietor of the facility was selling some of the newborns to criminals for ritual use and other babies for child trafficking, the police raided the baby factory.
It was said that the woman was a nuisance in the neighborhood and that occasionally, human remains might be discovered near the structure.
The proprietor of the baby factory is now at large, but efforts are being made to capture her, according to a troop member.
However, the soldiers detained a 34-year-old chef at the facility named Katherine Oyechi Ngwanma.
The Abia State Government has been given the pregnant ladies and their unborn children in order to take further action.
Lt. Omale Innocent Prince, the Army Public Relations Officer for the 14 Brigade Ohafia, and Mr. Ferdinand Ekeoma, the Governor Alex Otti’s Media Advisor, led the men.
In an interview after the operation, Ekeoma commended the military for the operation, stating that there was no justification for why “this kind of thing should be happening in any part of Abia State”.
He promised that Alex Otti’s administration would sanitize the state and that the government would look into the situation thoroughly in conjunction with the security authorities.
He asserted that Otti’s administration will prevent similar incidents from recurring moving forward in any area of the state.
